All News is Good News
[Roxane Gay / August 11th, 2009 / News ]RIP John Hughes. Breakfast Club is the best primer on writing dialogue, ever.
An interesting interview series that offers 10 Questions for Poetry editors. In this installment, Mary Biddinger, editor of the Barn Owl Review.
A note to writers about making their deadlines.
If you pull a literary hoax and no one notices, have you really pulled a literary hoax?
This has nothing to do with writing, but a reporter got to see the Netflix processing center which would be like, a dream come true for me, so read about it.
Jim Baen’s Universe is closing with the April 2010 issue.
Books as flirtation (or is that flotation?) devices.
What rejections mean.
An Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Read, Write, Poem.
Support Emma Straub.
Seven Lies About Lying.
The winner of NPR’s Three Minute Fiction contest was announced.
PANK contributor Laura Marello is now reviewing books for Examiner.
Daniel Nester, another PANK contributor, Â has a book forthcoming accompanied by an amusing website. Check it out.
Hint Fiction editor Robert Swartwood reports on the first week of submissions for his forthcoming Norton Hint Fiction anthology.
J.A. Tyler has redesigned the mud luscious site and it’s pretty.
Rocco Landesman will serve as the new chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts.
The AWP 2010 schedule is shaping up. Some see us at our panel and visit us at the Bookfair.
Bad news for short story collections?
the bad news for story collections thing is depressing. lately it seems like i am hearing more and more depressing things about the world of writing. it’s getting me down.
I’ll be honest. I am optimistic about the world of writing. Life is cyclical. There are rises and falls. We’re still reading Shakespeare. I’m pretty confident that literature will persevere.
In the short term, magazines are folding and it’s hard to sell short story collections, etc. etc. etc., but I remain pretty confident that things are going to be okay as long as there is still one person in this world who loves words.
I agree. I am, in general, optimistic about the future for the world of writing. I just feel like I’ve read a lot of negative things over the last couple days, and it’s wearing me down. But, like life, my moods are cyclical and soon I’ll probably be back to feeling rosy about it all… or as close to rosy as I get.
The past while has indeed brought dark news. Hopefully, we’ll be hearing more good news in the next while.